@_britmonkey: Why every spaceship flies green and red lights #history #trivia #ship

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not_normie_user
Pier144 🇪🇺🇮🇹 :
Ah the britannic colonization reached space i see
2026-09-01 18:51:44
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aaronthegerman
user3458895041784 :
Easy to remember, red starts with an R and it goes on the left
2026-09-02 05:47:29
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vances_1
Vance :
My goat buzz lightyear follows the code
2026-09-03 04:50:15
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waterpurifier2631
Monkey on a typewriter :
It is the year 3372. You are flying aboard a colony ship to a near settlement in a star system closeby. After a long journey your ship is preparing to dock into a pre-existing space station around the planet's orbit. The spacecraft automatically flashes two colored lights on its side, a red one on the left and a green one on the right, because a guy from a country that no longer even exists, living a millennium and a half ago, decided that steam boats should do that as he was fond of those colors.
2026-09-01 22:02:46
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almalexian
Almalexia :
Even Star Trek uses the same navigation light layout, at least for the Federation.
2026-09-02 18:16:48
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malmoy1
Mal :
Left/right, red/green, port/starboard. The shortest words and the longest words in the pairs.
2026-09-02 07:40:54
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drybjed
Maciej Delmanowski 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 :
Tradition is preserved 3311 years into the future - dock lights in "Elite: Dangerous" (Frontier Developments is from UK).
2026-09-02 18:22:46
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unoriginalblu
UnoriginalBlu :
This is one of those traditions that's too stupid and funny to get rid of.
2026-09-03 00:04:04
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jamie31080
Jamie3108 :
Imagine telling him that his decision would impact space craft, including those that landed on the moon
2026-09-01 23:36:35
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megakizz86
Megakizz :
Absolutely right all of space belongs to England and must follow the kings law.
2026-09-02 00:50:38
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n.a000000000
N.A000000000 :
So thats what was missing on my kerbal space program ship😂
2026-09-02 22:13:51
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davidengle65
davidengle65 :
Enterprise-D, 2363.
2026-09-03 18:13:34
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cobolt.144
Cobolt :
if it works it works.
2026-09-02 03:31:03
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strawberrygirl594
strawberrygirl :
The size of rocket boosters are more or less based on the width of a horse's ass
2026-09-03 13:17:46
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gafferdude
Gafferdude :
Red/left/port have 4 or fewer letters. Green/right/starboard have 5 letters or more.
2026-09-03 00:50:32
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gamerleft
gamerleft :
For those wondering what left and right even mean in space, here you go. Here is a (very crude and simplified) drawing of Crew Dragon I made showing where the astronauts are facing inside while docking at the space station. Green is on the right-hand side of the astronauts. If ISS doesn’t see this orientation out their windows lined up with the correct parts of the docking ports, they know something is wrong.
2026-09-03 00:23:34
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lalunelunacy
𓌹𔓎𓌺 Pomme d'OutreTerre🥔⃝𖤐 :
i think he just liked Christmas too much
2026-09-02 06:05:47
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luumurtuma
luumurtuma :
what does left and right mean on a satellite?
2026-09-02 20:15:16
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ceo_of_zero_likes
👑 King of Zero Likes :
Cars didn't even exist back then
2026-09-02 16:02:33
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